Green Issues

[Sweetpea]

3 guesses who answers most of these...


1) The pressure group Greenpeace was formed in which year? 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976 - 1971 - poppy

2) What colour flag is flown on beaches that have been declared clean and free of pollution? - Blue

3) A leak from an American owned chemical factory in which city killed tens of thousands in 1984? - Bhopal - Emmylou

4) Britain’s nuclear treatment centre is THORP at Sellafield, what does THORP stand for? -
Thermal Oxide (Regeneration plant)

5) In 1962 Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, warning against the ecological dangers of what? - Pesticides - Von

6) What are the chemicals in aerosols and refrigerants partly responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer? - CFC (Chloro-Flouro-Carbons) - Haqa

7) What is the destructive cultivation technique used by nomadic people in many third world country’s? - Slash & Burn - Bruv

8) In 1993, which of these cities was declared the least polluted, Athens, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome? - London - Churchill

9) Name any 3 countries that have flouted or refused to sign anti whaling agreements? - Brazil, Denmark, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Peru, Russia, South Korea - Von

10) Among Europe’s main rivers, which one has been classified the most polluted? - The Rhine

[Von Spreuth.]

5. pesticides. But DDT in particular.

[Sweetpea]

Sorry Churchill, not even one of those

Hekna, already answered.

[Von Spreuth.]

9. Japan, Norway, Iceland.

And don't forget my Rachael Carson answer from yesterday.

[Sweetpea]

Wasn't home yesterday, will have a look.

[Von Spreuth.]

Top of this page.

[Sweetpea]

Done.